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Facebook Plans to Put Ads in Messenger

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This is perfect. I love receiving notifications because it makes me feel connected, even if it turns out to be an advert and not one of my friends it will be a nice distraction. Then, Ill be able to browse all of the cool neccessary gadgets I see on buzzfeed.

If you aren't like me, you are in a tough spot. There are virtually 0 messaging or communication tools for mobile. Sure, being interrupted by ads could fet annoying, but what other options do you have. Phones havent progressed to the point where they include a short messaging service by default, especially a low bandwith universal one.

There is really limited action in the space as well. It will be hard for companies to compete with the level of trust and security that is hallmark of facebook.

I heard apple was going to roll out iVoice, where you can speak directly to someone using your mobile device, and it is rumored messaging and video could be bundled in.

Surprisingly, google, snapchat, yikyak, sms, twitter, kik, telegram, wechat, textie, skype, hangouts, AOL, Signal, zendo, wire, chatSecure,yahoo messenger, slack and hip hat have failed to launch anything in the space.

With no alternatives, Ill be embracing the facebook ecosystem as it links me directly to my computer, documents, music and search(as well as all my hardware) which they make, if not for this lockin and lack of options, i would probably br upset

edit: I spoke to my inside guy at Apple. iVoice and the internal messaging system (called eMessage, or iMessage?) requires the user remember a 10-11 digit code for each person they want to contact, so no real help there.

Of course they do.

I'll once again recommend anyone wanting to use Facebook on their phone to use Tinfoil available on the F-Droid repository.

It's an open source wrapper app for the Facebook website and allows greater control over permissions than the official apps do.

Do companies really want to pay for the ability to annoy users with unwanted messages in Messenger? As a user, if I know that companies I've messaged can pay to show me ads, I'll try really hard to avoid ever messaging a company.

I guess they will start using promo fb messages to bait opt-in.

"Reply with the code PROMO10 for an exclusive 10% discount" and all that sort of nonsense.

I really hope i'll be able to permablock a company that sent me a message just like i can do with a user (explicitly AFTER they send shit) Honestly, just how braindead do you have to be to think this is a good idea?

I think this is likely to be the case, Facebook do have this as an option on their other adverts.

I just finished running an advertising campaign on facebook and was surprised by how the clickthrough rates varied by platform. Mobile CTR was about 15x higher than Desktop, so I'm not surprised they're trying to offer more options.

Just going to leave this here for Zuck http://krl.io/3e3ff

I will gleefully delete messenger as soon as I see an ad appear.

Massive mistake! This makes me delete my FB Messenger.

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